Larry Sanger

It's a cumulative case, really.

So I'm writing a book about this.

It's like over 650 pages long now called God Exists.

And I go into quite a bit of depth about, first, the arguments from natural theology, as it's called, or philosophy of religion.

The traditional arguments for the existence of God, things like the contingency arguments, the... Cosmological arguments, fine-tuning.

Fine-tuning, I mentioned, but that isn't actually one that I use.

I have something like it.

And then I go into basically how...

why the Bible actually can be credited as a communication of God.

I have to begin by talking about what we would expect, or first of all, why we would expect God to want to communicate with us.

There's actually good natural theological reasons to think so.

And then what...

are the earmarks, so to speak, of divine communication.

And the only body of spiritual...

writing that actually fits the bill is the Bible.

So the idea is if I'm, you know, sitting at my desk and I see a bird fly by the window, I have the distinct impression that on the one hand, it's almost a...

It didn't have to happen that way.

It could have happened a moment before, a moment later.

Maybe it was like a different kind of bird, whatever.

But on the other hand, if I understood all of the facts that are involved in that bird flying by my window at that moment, you know, that bird.